Well I've just come from a colorectal surgery specialist

Who has confirmed what I pretty much already knew: that my constantly draining fistula is essentially inoperable (it'll never heal because of my Crohn's) since the usual treatments will pretty much just make it bigger and bloodier and as a bonus, maybe even make me incontinent for the rest of my life.

So the advice from the man who knows is to just live with it.

So I have from now until whenever I live until to enjoy leaking pus and blood out of a hole near my anus all day, every day.

The problem isn't dead tissue, but rather a constantly healing/re-opening tunnel from my rectum to the surface of my skin. The sides of the tunnel ARE 'healed', that is, the tissue has healed incorrectly and formed a new channel. No sort of treatment designed to eat away dead tissue would have any effect at all except to skeeve me out.

There's no way to prevent it from becoming infected periodically. Even if it never got infected, it'd still drain fluid.

So yeah.

There WAS a study in the Czech republic where they glued fistulas shut with some sort of protein compound laced with antibiotics, but it was only on a sample size of 70 and for some reason didn't include Crohn's patients.

I haven't read the whole article, but a friend did something similar to that poop transplant. After she had her first kid, they gave her some antibiotics that really messed up her system and she got a C-Dif infection. She struggled with that for a while, but basically there was no treatment except increasingly strong antibiotics to try to keep the C-Dif in check. She did some research, found some Doctor in Europe who would sell instructions and a kit to help w/ "harvesting" good poop and processing it... It worked for her.